Trump again claims coronavirus is 'going to just disappear' as US sees record number of new cases

[SouthernCal_Dem]

Source: The Independent via MSN

Donald Trump has repeated a claim that the coronavirus is going to “just disappear”, a day after the United States announced a record number of new cases.

“I think we’re gonna be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point that’s going to, sort of, just disappear — I hope,” Mr Trump told Fox Business on Wednesday.

The comments come as more than 48,000 coronavirus cases were announced across the country on Tuesday, the highest daily number since the pandemic began. Eight states reported single-day highs: Alaska, Arizona, California, Georgia, Idaho, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas.

It is not the first time Mr Trump has made the claim that the virus will vanish on its own — one that has been contradicted by his own expert advisors. Speaking in February, when just over a dozen cases had been confirmed on US soil, Mr Trump said: "One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear."

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. I think it's a planned crackdown on news media

Make it illegal to mention coronavirus in public.

[PJMcK]

2. Trump is delusional

Why is it so hard for people to see that?

[Berlin Expat]

5. Trump is a big believer

in Dr. Norman Vince Peale's "Power of Positive Thinking". His parents went to Peale's church and IIRC, he and Ivana were married there.

Simply put, Trump's taken this idea to its not-so-logical extreme. If he just believes hard enough that COVID-19 is going to simply go away....then it will.

Of course, it's ridiculous. But hey....that's Trump for you.

[progree]

9. A true believer that hedges his bets - he insists everyone in the West Wing wear a mask

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/11/white-house-issues-memo-requiring-staff-to-wear-masks-in-west-wing.html

White House issues memo requiring staff to wear masks in West Wing, CNBC, 5/11/20
... The directive from the White House management office was laid out in a memo to staffers Monday afternoon, NBC reported. ... The memo also asked staff members to avoid visiting the West Wing, where the Oval Office is located, unless it is necessary, the sources told NBC.

Something to keep in mind when some fuckhead harasses you about wearing a mask -- if they're so ineffective or the Covid19 is just a hoax, or if only wimps or “Democrat Islamo-Maoists" wear them, then ask the fuckhead why does your fearless leader require everyone near him to wear a mask? Why is he wimpifying his staff -- and by extension himself?

[Dave Starsky]

27. I was a fan of Peale in college.

In fact, I give his book full credit for helping me turn my life around completely from a deep depression, and it may have even saved my life.

There is nothing wrong with that philosophy.

That having been said, I DO seem to recall that Peale advocated quite forcefully that effective action needs to be coupled with your positive thinking. In fact, you pretty much need to work your ass off and "meet the Lord halfway", as it were. Only a lazy, total moron would think otherwise, and Trump is the God King of lazy morons.

[PJMcK]

30. Trump never embraced Dr. Peale's philosophy

Trump has always been incapable of learning. His history proves that point.

For a couple of years, I attended Marble Collegiate Church in NYC and heard a few of Dr. Peale's sermons and many of his successor, Dr. Caliandro. I concur with your observations about the fundamental requirement to work hard and the quality of their philosophies.

I also concur with your observation of the lazy jackass in the White House.

[ananda]

19. Not really. He really wants to sell that Remdesivir ..

.. he bought up.

It actually helps CV patients, unlike
that awful hydroxychloroquine they
bought up.

[yuiyoshida]

3. Doctor Trump Hath Spoken....

In his own head, he is probably visualizing himself going down Pennsylvania avenue to flower petals dropping down upon him, he is not the President, he is king of the world....

bakayaro バカヤロ!!

[BeyondGeography]

4. It's going to be beautiful

[BigmanPigman]

6. Please, make tRump disappear.

Pleeeeeease! We need a miracle.

[IronLionZion]

7. Close your eyes, click your heels together 3 times

[notKeith]

8. Just disappear ... ? just like...

..his head up his ass.

It never ceases to amaze me how someone so out of shape, so rotund, so old, can totally bury his head up his own ass.

[Roy Rolling]

10. Disappear

Disappear over a decade or more...maybe. He’s not right, even a broken clock is accurate twice a day.

[liberalmuse]

11. Hark! The naked emperor has spoken his empty rhetoric.

And with the wave of his hand, the virus disappears. Poof!

[iluvtennis]

12. Bonafide moron. nt

[marble falls]

13. "And one day it all disapeared!" He's out and out telling kiddie level fairy tales. He's nuts.

[Baclava]

14. "You have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple days , will be down to close to zero" - Feb 26

Yeah, why anyone even listens to anything this doofus says is beyond me

[TeamPooka]

15. Keep talking #DementiaDonny. Just keep talking.

[Roc2020]

16. At this point what else can he say

shut down? he won't say that. mandatory masks? no. Social distance? not Trump. He is stuck and has no choice but to endure media wrath from his enemies in both parties for 4 months or resign. couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[beachbumbob]

17. nero fiddled while rome burned and trump golfed wjile america sank under the pandemic

all I know, trump is making MORE democratic voters every day, same with DeSantis and Abbott

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. "I hope" is not firm leadership. It's weakness, unfitness. . . . nt

[LudwigPastorius]

20. He's a delusional, fucking lunatic.

If he wasn't in the Oval Office, he'd be the old guy standing on the corner with his pants around his ankles arguing with the clouds.

[NRaleighLiberal]

21. if only he'd disappear

[True Blue American]

23. The fool just said

“ When he wore a mask he looked like the Lone Ranger!”

Would someone tell the ignorant fool the Lone Ranger wore his mask over his eyes, not his nose and mouth?

[cstanleytech]

22. Hey I hope I will hit the lottery tonight myself Donny!!! Of course seeing I do not have my head up

my ass I know the odds of that actually happening are about as big as you passing up playing another round of golf.

[Skittles]

24. I know what I wish would disappear

[CountAllVotes]

25. +1

[NCjack]

26. Putin told him, so it is true.

[hadEnuf]

28. Trump is laughing in the faces of Americans over COVID-19.

He just can't believe that some actually buy into his ludicrous comments, and as for the rest, they can simply F O.

Trump. Doesn't. Care. Not one bit.

[JDC]

29. He is seriously out of his goddamn mind.

He is doing ZERO to help this country recover from this pandemic.

[DSandra]

31. Should it be any clearer to Americans that Trump is insane?

Would they get on a bus with an insane driver?

[Stuart G]

32. To repeat the stupidest thing Trump has ever said, is proof that Donald Trump is insane..